Vicki Kornahrens (read bio)
Vicki Kornahrens, who teaches grades 3-5 at Brandon School, impressed UCSB faculty when she was a teacher-facilitator for elementary school teachers for five years in the summer institute facilitated by Margaret Rose and Sears McGee (both also History Associates Board members) for the California History/Social Science Project. She has garnered many awards for her teaching and innovative curriculum for social studies, including the History Associates’ prize for the Outstanding K-12 History Social Science Teacher (2004). Vicki always loved history, but chose to major in economics as the more practical choice (and not so dry as the even more practical subject of Business). After earning her BA and MA in Economics, she worked for a while as an economic analyst at SRI International. Teaching brought her back to her favorite subject of history. She serves as the chair of the Education Committee on the Goleta Valley Historical Society Board of Directors, which ties in nicely with her current curriculum work. She is overseeing Pioneer Days, a pilot program for third grade that integrates local history into the curriculum of the Goleta schools.